Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:02:00 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gzip and large files Message-ID: <20020828020200.GG75117@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020828100648.K98594-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> References: <20020828100648.K98594-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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In the last episode (Aug 28), Andrew said: > I have a large log file (approx 1GB gzip compressed) that I want to > search. When I try to decompress it the resulting file is only just > over 300MB. While its possible it was just horribly inefficient > compresison I suspect I'm hitting some bug...perhaps due to the > resulting file being greater than 2GB? > > Does anyone know what is going on and what I can do about it? Maybe your disk is full? :) gzip doesn't have any problems spanning the 2gb mark. The output of "gunzip -l file.gz" will be wrong, but that's it. Try running "gunzip -t", which will test the file without uncompressing it. A 1gb text logfile should expand to between 5 and 10 gb. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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